| SINGHHISPRAISES | What the NDP would do to their leader if they won the next election? |
| STHEERREJOICING | What the Conservatives would indulge in if they won the next election? |
| MAYITEVERBESO | What the Greens would sagely say if they won the next election? |
| RYECAPTAIN | What pirates say to their leader when they want a type of whiskey rather than grog? |
| AMILLIONBUCKS | What happy people might feel like, or what they might get if they won the lottery |
| RANKANDFILE | Ordinary people as opposed to their leaders (4,3,4) |
| TOMMORRISSENIOR | He won the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 8th British Opens; his son won the next four after that |
| NKOMO | Joshua ____ founded the NDP and ZAPU parties which were banned in what was then Rhodesia |
| LDR | Singh, to the NDP, e.g.: Abbr. |
| CCF | Tommy Douglas's party, now the NDP |
| BREAKTHEICE | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| MHAIRIBLACK | SNP's deputy leader in the House of Commons who is to step down at the next election (6,5) |
| GUESSINGGAME | The date of the next election, for instance, leads to charades? (8,4) |
| TORYGAIN | An unlikely result for the next election report, if polls are to be believed (4,4) |
| FLYSOLO | What the unsociable bird would do to do it alone (3,4) |
| SUGARCOAT | Make sweeter, in the way the theme answers do to their starred clues? |
| SNOOKER | Game or what players try to do to their opponents in that game (7) |
| MADETHEROUNDS | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| BRADY | Sir Graham ....., chair of the 1922 Committee who announced that at the next election he will have 11/17D/16 (5) |
| GRAYLING | graylilng who announced that at the next election he will have 11/17D/16 (8) |
